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Links to Other Websites

American Liver Foundation (ALF)The American Liver Foundation (ALF) is the nation's leading nonprofit organization promoting liver health and disease prevention. ALF provides research, education, and advocacy for those affected by hepatitis and other liver-related diseases.

Family Health HistoryThe CDC website provides information about the importance of family health history, including tips for collection family health history.

Family Health Portrait ToolThe Web-based tool helps users organize family history information and then print it out for presentation to their family doctor. In addition, the tool helps users save their family history information to their own computer and even share family history information with other family members.

Talking Glossary of Genetics TermsThe National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help everyone understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to related terms.